if your garden is bigger than a courtyard, but smaller than an acre

Asters are top autumn flowering perennials

10 top autumn garden tips and plants

Six leading plant growers share their top autumn garden tips and recommend the best plants for flowering now

Updated on October 21st, 2023

Posted In: Gardening Know How


Small garden folly ideas

Garden ruins and follies add more to your garden than you think!

Garden ruins & follies are romantic focal points, divide up space, create a micro-climate for plants and create an enchanted garden aesthetic

Updated on January 16th, 2025

Posted In: Garden Style & Living, Garden Trends & Design


Cottage garden plants - scabious, echinacea, sanguisorba and hollyhocks.

Rustic cottage garden ideas – 7 tips for creating a stunning garden on a shoestring budget

How to create a rustic cottage garden haven in an empty strip of lawn or field, with budget tips and recycling cottagecore inspiration

Updated on February 9th, 2025

Posted In: Garden Style & Living


Dahlias won't flower in a shady spot - they need full sun.

6 Common Reasons Why Your Garden Plants Aren’t Flowering (and how to fix it!)

Are you looking at plants in your garden and wondering why they aren’t flowering? I am. And I’ve discovered a surprising reason why my cosmos plants don’t even have any…

Published on July 22nd, 2023

Posted In: Gardening Know How


Shallow wide garden design

How to turn a wide shallow backyard into the perfect garden

How to divide up a wide shallow backyard or garden – turn it into a beautiful outdoor space with just a few clever tips.

Updated on January 8th, 2026

Posted In: Garden Trends & Design


The Wildlife Trust's Renters Retreat designed by Zoe Claymore.

6 trending ideas for your garden from RHS Hampton Court 2023

RHS Hampton Court 2023 is short for The RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival. But that sounds far too grand. ‘Hampton Court’ is the Chelsea Flower Show’s much loved younger…

Updated on August 4th, 2023

Posted In: Garden Trends & Design


How to puppy-proof your garden

Puppy-proof your garden – 7 practical tips that really work – and 3 to avoid!

If you’re going to puppy-proof your garden, there’s lots of advice out there. Not all of it works. As a journalist, I start every project with the assumption that I…

Published on July 1st, 2023

Posted In: Gardening Know How


The Sub Aqua garden by Joshua Fenton

The 10 best ideas for your garden from BBC Gardeners World Live 2023

Here’s the pick of the best ideas for your garden from BBC Gardeners World Live 2023. Of course, we can never reproduce show garden perfection in our own gardens, but…

Published on June 16th, 2023

Posted In: Garden Trends & Design


Container pond in an agricultural water trough

How to create a beautiful container pond to attract wildlife

You can make a container pond out of anything that will hold water. But some materials are better than others. That includes stone, metal, some ceramics and fibreglass. Many people…

Updated on February 20th, 2026

Posted In: Wildlife & Eco


Use tree stumps as garden sculpture

Transform a shady corner of your garden with a stunning stumpery

A stumpery is an area of the garden with tree stumps and logs arranged as decoration. If you’ve got a mature tree with big roots and you can’t plant anything…

Updated on October 19th, 2024

Posted In: Garden Trends & Design, Wildlife & Eco


Soft fence colours in Sarah Price's garden in RHS Chelsea 2023

7 ideas from RHS Chelsea 2023 that will really work in your garden

Here are the best ideas for your garden from this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show (known as RHS Chelsea 2023). Not all show garden ideas translate into real garden design,…

Updated on August 4th, 2023

Posted In: Garden Trends & Design


How to choose the best plants for your garden

5 top tips on how to choose the best plants for your garden

Here are 5 top insider tips on how to choose the best plants for your garden. I visited multi-award winning nursery, Hardy’s Cottage Garden Plants to ask Rosy Hardy what…

Published on May 20th, 2023

Posted In: Gardening Know How